Detective Conan: Knifeman? I'm a good citizen of Beihua

a week ago.

After Shirakawa Qiu placed the bomb at the bottom and detonated it, he was swept by the waves of the explosion and was swept into the undercurrent of the sea.

At that moment, the fortress's sole pillar collapsed under the onrushing water, and the entire fortress collapsed completely. Shirakawa Qiu swam in the water, swept away by the incoming waves. Debris fell overhead, forcing him to dive and swim towards the passage on the first floor.

Perhaps the elevator just now was his only chance to escape, but Baichuanqiu did not regret it.

If he really died here, it would be his bad luck.

At least at this moment, in Baichuan Qiu's view, he has successfully changed the fate of five people.

In contrast, in the face of fate, he is a winner.

——Even at the cost of his own life.

However, when sinking into the water, Baichuanqiu did not give up the chance of survival.

He took off his sunglasses, revealing his light golden eyes. He nimbly avoided the debris and floating corpses around him and swam hard in one direction.

【Escape Master】Start! Find the best escape route!

At the same time, a new skill lit up on his panel——

【The leader in the water】

This is the skill that Baichuan Qiu just learned from the group of pirates.

The reason why those pirates have been able to survive in this sea area for many years and escape official capture many times is because of their skills in the water.

It is said that some of them can even jump directly into the sea when being arrested by the police, and then swim back to the shore directly from the sea, bypassing the official search. Their ability is just like that of mermaids living in the sea, which is very exaggerated.

So at that time, Shirakawa Qiu hinted to Gin to deal with the pirates who were forcibly brought aboard by the organization.

Now it seems that his choice was not wrong. The skills he learned from the pirates are his last life-saving trump card!

Shirakawa Qiu held his breath and swam all the way back to the sixth floor. By then, the fortress had been almost completely submerged, slowly falling towards the depths of the ocean. Shirakawa Qiu encountered undercurrents several times, being swept away to other locations, his body bruised and battered by debris, but he refused to give up. Finally, with his last breath, he returned to the room where Karasuma Renya was.

The room was in a mess at this moment, and it could no longer be seen in its previous state. Even the speed at which the seawater poured in had slowed down. Baichuan Qiu clung to the building with both hands, barely able to resist the impact of the seawater and continue to swim inside.

Karasuma Renya is an extremely cautious guy. He is afraid of death and betrayal, so many people don’t know that Karasuma Renya has secretly prepared another escape pod right under his bed to prevent others inside the fortress from betraying him.

Unfortunately, the people in the fortress were quite loyal, and Karasuma Renya died so quickly that no one discovered the escape pod. Those who knew about it were basically all dead.

——Except Curacao.

Even Rum doesn't know about this!

But... now Gin also knows about this.

Shirakawa Qiu was really not sure whether Gin would just give up on him and leave.

Although his dealings with Gin were indeed pleasant enough, Gin himself...

Haha, Baichuan Qiu actually didn’t have much hope, but he could only try his best.

As Bai Chuanqiu thought this, the air in his lungs became increasingly scarce. Even though he possessed such formidable underwater skills, it was ultimately impossible to surpass the physiological limits of humans. Bai Chuanqiu could only rely on his last bit of obsession to numbly slide his arms forward, swimming forward with blurred vision...

Even as his last breath turned into bubbles and slipped away from the water, he continued to swim mechanically, only his eyes gradually dimmed and turned gray, becoming empty and desolate...

In fact, Shirakawa Qiu didn't remember what happened after that very clearly.

He seemed to have been swimming for half a century, but also seemed to have died long ago, with his soul floating in the water with his body. When he woke up from a dream, he was already in the escape pod.

"Oh, you're really awake!"

The woman leaned over and looked at him, her tone teasing.

Baichuan Qiu struggled to sit up and began to cough madly——

"Cough, cough, cough——yue——"

He coughed and vomited, trying to spit out the water in his stomach, and then, as if he had finally been rescued, he took deep breaths of the not-so-fresh air in the escape pod.

Baichuan Qiu narrowed his eyes, and his vision gradually returned to normal. He saw a man and a woman sitting in front of him, both of whom were looking at him with their arms folded.

"It seems that this artificial respiration is quite effective."

Vermouth crossed her legs and leaned back slowly.

"Who did it?"

Shirakawa Qiu opened his eyes wide and looked at Vermouth in front of him and Gin sitting opposite him.

“Haha, I was just kidding.” Vermouth lifted her hair and laughed happily. Then, because of the injury on her waist, she hissed softly, “We were still discussing whether to save you or just throw you out as a corpse, and then you woke up.”

Baichuan Qiu was speechless: "Haha, thank you, this is not funny at all."

However, having said that, Baichuan Qiu knew that in the end it was definitely one of the two people who helped him, otherwise he would not appear here, but would become a corpse floating in the sea, bidding farewell to this world forever.

Shirakawa Qiu glanced back and forth at the two people in front of him, finally landing on Gin, and said solemnly: "Thank you."

Gin glanced at him, slowly closed his eyes to rest, and said in a cold voice: "Don't forget our deal."

Bai Chuanqiu coughed a few more times and said with a smile, "Don't worry."

Vermouth asked curiously, "Why don't you think I saved you?"

No matter how you look at it, she, as a woman, is more soft-hearted...

"Ahem, bad guys don't care about mercy, they only care about profit." Baichuanqiu shrugged and looked at Vermouth. "Our relationship hasn't reached the stage of talking about love yet, right?"

The woman was a little speechless and rolled her eyes: "As expected, anyone who can make a deal with Gin is so boring."

Baichuan Qiu did not answer again, but just leaned quietly against the bulkhead, waiting for the destination to arrive.

In the deep blue sea, a spherical submarine slowly emerged from the darkness and headed towards the bright light, while the giant "sea monster" behind it let out its last scream and completely disappeared in the depths of the ocean, buried along with the unspeakable stories of the past.

--it's all over.

At this moment, everyone's destiny is completely freed from constraints and everyone has the ability to change it.

They are no longer characters, but living beings...

……

Outside the hospital.

"Actually, even if Mr. Shirakawa doesn't say it, I roughly understand why Mr. Shirakawa doesn't want Officer Furuya and the others to know that you were there."

Kudo Shinichi looked at Shirakawa Akane calmly.

After all, in that scenario, Baichuanqiu's camp was not the pure red side, but the black side that was on the edge.

He couldn't explain why Gin would allow such a "Vodka" to follow him - they never doubted Gin's vigilance and cunning.

So he could not tolerate Gin escaping from there alive.

The thing that divides Shirakawa Akira is that he cannot openly reveal his dark side, nor can he calmly step into the white side like his friends.

He has many secrets, from the beginning to the end, from the past to the present.

Some secrets can be made known to others, but some secrets are best left completely secret.

Baichuan Qiu shrugged: "I thought that as a detective, you wanted to get to the bottom of all secrets and truths."

Kudo Shinichi suddenly smiled with relief, as if at this moment he had completely broken away from the young protagonist in Shirakawa Akane's impression who was obsessed with distinguishing between absolute black and white justice, and became a young detective who truly had his own thoughts and seriously considered the core of justice and the value of truth.

"The truth is always the truth. It will not disappear because of lies, nor will it change because of coercion. It's just that everyone interprets the truth from their own perspective and perspective. At this moment, I have received the answer I want from Mr. Shirakawa."

So whether Gin is still alive or whether Shirakawa is a bad guy is no longer important.

"Thank you Mr. Shirakawa for clearing up my confusion. I should be leaving now."

Kudo Shinichi took a step back, a genuine and sincere smile on his face, "Goodbye, Mr. Shirakawa."

Then he turned around and ran in one direction.

And there, standing there, were Ran Mouri and the Kudo couple, waiting for him to come back.

Baichuan Qiu watched the young man's cheerful back and slowly narrowed his eyes, but the cell phone in his pocket began to vibrate.

He took out his cell phone and opened his email, and sure enough, he had received a letter from someone.

[GIN: The mission target has died. The new mission target has been sent to your email.]

The white-haired young man looked at the message, stood for a long time, and smiled faintly. His light golden eyes were without any strange color, as bright as the sun.

Mr. Bai: It’s a pleasure working with you.

"Shirakawa, let's go! What are you still standing there for?!"

A voice called out to him. It was Jinpei Matsuda.

Baichuan Qiu turned around and saw several good friends standing there.

Hagiwara Kenji waved at him: "Hurry up, Shirakawa, let's go back together! Today is a very good day! We can't waste time!"

Holding his wife Natalie in one hand and his daughter in the other, Yi Dahang smiled and nodded at Shirakawa Qiu: "It's my treat today!"

"Wow! Squad leader is so generous!" Furuya Ling hooked his arm around Morifushi Jingguang's neck, "Morifushi and I have been starving for seven days and seven nights. Be careful that we eat up all your daughter's milk powder money in one go."

Zhu Fujingguang chuckled helplessly: "That's too exaggerated!"

Bai Chuanqiu smiled as he watched his friends having fun and quickly ran over: "Okay, then I won't be shy! Thank you, squad leader!"

——His name is Shirakawa Qiu, the Bai in Shirakawa Qiu, not the Xiaohei in anyone's script.

Of course, people in the other world prefer to call him Mr. Bai, because he is good at hiding behind the scenes and controlling everyone's fate -

Maybe until the end, even "fate" was played by him.

What? You're calling this a crime?

No, no—

He is a good citizen of Rice Krispie!